A glossy brochure for Garden City in Nairobi, which includes 400-plus flats and townhouses, boasts: "From the aquamarine water of the heated swimming pool to the ultra-modern fitted kitchen, solid bamboo flooring and glass balcony balustrades, quality is the defining characteristic of the Garden City Village".
Stay in the wonderfully peaceful Casa Hassan, (casahassan.com), two townhouses split across a narrow alleyway which are free of telephones, TVs and the internet, but which boast a fabulous hammam, traditional restaurant and roof terraces with spectacular views.
Most accommodation is in village cottages and townhouses, so this beachfront villa in the hamlet of La Noue, with its parquet floors, pine-panelled walls and antique furnishings, is quite a find.
The developer, Hines, an American firm, is finishing laying pipes and will soon start the first of 230 townhouses, each with its own green front lawn.
Gorgeous Victorian townhouses can be bought for amazing prices.Thanks to a thriving economy and a minor budget surplus, Pittsburgh looks set to stay in good shape.
Nothing has been decided but the townhouses will probably become an archive and research centre for Bourgeois scholars.
WITH brick-fronted townhouses and old-fashioned street lamps, Faulkner's Landing in Ashburn is one of hundreds of new developments that sprouted across the farmlands of northern Virginia during America's housing boom.
"Calgary is on steroids," says a local.So is the capital, Edmonton, where numerous new townhouses are rising along the North Saskatchewan river, and new shopping malls and factories advance out into the prairie.
Foreign heads of state, such as Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, queue up to dine at the Clubhouse.Xintiandi has so delighted central government and Shanghai officials (Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, sometimes drops in for tea) that Mr Lo has won permission to develop an adjoining 50 hectares into luxury townhouses, offices and hotels.
Here a crescent of townhouses is packed together as tightly as though space were at an inner-city premium; there villas stretch and sprawl, their servants' quarters bigger than most houses.
Contemporary European influences can be seen, particularly in Alexandria and Cairo, where sections of each city's corniche are fronted by townhouses, hotels, and mansions of a distinctly European design.
